Fiction
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Freedom, equality, and sexuality run through Yashpal’s first (and semi-autobiographical) novel
Yashpal
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‘Sin’: Even ‘semi-erotic’ may be a misnomer for Wajida Tabassum’s collection of short stories
Isa Ayidh
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Carlo Pizzati’s new book tells stories of the power of objects over life and secrets
Carlo Pizzati
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What does fiction from Kashmir tell us? An anthology of stories across generations
Dinanath Nadim
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‘Mahasena’: The first part of Kala Krishnan’s Murugan trilogy refuses to be a tidy retelling
Priya Balasubramanian
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‘Sin’: These stories are from the old-world aristocracy of Hyderabad in the 1950s
Wajida Tabassum
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‘Birdwatching’: A secret war is raging in the Himalayas in Stephen Alter’s new novel
Stephen Alter
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‘The Middle Finger’: Saikat Majumdar’s new novel interrogates privilege in the world of teachers
Saloni Sharma
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‘The Sheep Look Up’: This cult 1970s science fiction novel predicted today’s climate crisis
Dan Taylor, The Conversation
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The battle between the demons and the gods gets a new spin in this mythological saga
Satyam
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In this satirical novel, a man gains the superpower of curing a gastric epidemic in Mumbai
Jugal Mody
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Hanya Yanagihara’s ‘To Paradise’: A winding journey through three books in search of a destination
Richa Bhattarai
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Perumal Murugan’s ‘Resolve’ is an extended meditation on the politics of marriage in India
Sahana Hegde
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New YA lit: A young girl moves to a new school in a new town, and finds she can talk to plants
Bijal Vachharajani
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A new book uses fiction to examine the ethics and boundaries for teachers with their students
Saikat Majumdar
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A mother and a son have secrets from each other in this novel about Indian origin people in America
Neel Patel
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Annie Zaidi’s new novel weaves the narratives of unnamed people into a disturbing urban tapestry
Gayathri Sankar
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Today’s political reality of deep divisions explodes within a family in Kunal Basu’s new novel
Kunal Basu
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Nagaland is often in the news. Temsula Ao’s short stories talk of its people behind the headlines
Temsula Ao
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‘Qabar’: KR Meera’s novel deftly explores religious polarisation with a feminist sensibility
Saloni Sharma